feint
\fɛ̃\
The verdict
“feint” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,489
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peinture qui imite le marbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feint · feint · French
feint · rank #31,489 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,489
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fay
Nearest frequency peer: fay (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « feint »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faf
faf
68,515 corpus weight
- farces
farces
68,514 corpus weight
- fay
fay
68,513 corpus weight
- feint
feint
68,512 corpus weight
- fendre
fendre
68,511 corpus weight
- ferries
ferries
68,510 corpus weight
What this shows « feint » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « feint »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around feint (IPA \fɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,489 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Peinture qui imite le marbre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for feint, with forms such as "efint", "feinnt", and "feintt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fin", "fit", "fen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is feint, spelled F-E-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Peinture qui imite le marbre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efint
- feinnt
- feintt
- feitn
- fenit
- ffeint
- fient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feint - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).